The 10 Best WWE Superstar Appearances in TV Shows 

#5 Big Van Vader on Boy Meets World

Vader's work on Boy Meets World was a surprising and successful turn.

Boy Meets World was a popular family sitcom in the 1990s, particularly geared toward kids. When it came time to cast big bully character Frankie’s dad, the show opted for a big man in his own right—one of wrestling’s all-time great super heavyweights, Big Van Vader.

Vader’s character played a loving dad who moonlighted as a heel wrestler. To go all in on the concept, the show not only cast Vader, but struck a deal with WWE film scenes at a WWE house show in and around the ring to achieve realism and appeal to Vader’s fans from the wrestling world.

Vader’s role on the show is remembered fondly particularly because it was so at odds with his monster persona on camera and stiff reputation as a worker for him to have gotten mixed up with a warm hearted show like this.